Panoramic Lounge Bar [Paperback]

'So hip that it is amazing Stammers managed to rouse himself long enough to write it'

'A livewire imagination'

'The newly-crowned king of neo-pop cool'

'Stands witness to John Stammers' sheer talent and technical expertise, outclassing other debuts around it...'

'Stammers mangages to write some of the most memorable love poetry of his generation'

An exciting debut from a London poet.

John Stammers's collection is witty, touching and clever - with brilliant images where love scenes are laced with irony and the details of contemporary life. He writes about irrelevant vampires living out their days on the sea front at Eastbourne; about flowers with 'fine pointed petals like scalpels' and is absolutely brilliant on music. His writing is vivid and assured.

John Stammers read philosophy at King's College London and is an Associate of Kings' College. His first collection, Panoramic Lounge-Bar, was awarded the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2001 and shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award 2001. His second collection, Stolen Love Behaviour, was a Poetry Book Society Choice. He was Judith E. Wilson Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is a creative writing tutor and freelance writer. He lives in Hampstead, London with his wife Isolde and their sons Jay and Freddie.